- Writer is speaking in the past tense- "When I was seven...", remembering something. We are bieng shown a memory first, the story is bieng told in the present.
- Emphasis put on "Middle C" key on piano, holding some sort of significance in the writers memory. This significance is unkown even to the writer.
- Relationship is built with a classmate, a girl who sits next to the boy inspires awe in him due to her more advanced skills on the piano. The boy is puzzled by his first metaphor.
- Established a pupil and master relationship witht he girl
- Story snaps back to the present, author realizes that much of what he said was false
- Memories fade and are altered by new experiences, a rewriting of the story reveals the past in more accurate detail.
- We learn that drafts are for before the writer gets involved in a peice personally, it allows for connection between the writer and the memory.
- The work findsits own subject, the writer is a tool used for the memory to travel through times
-desires at the time change what one remembers in the present
- As we remember, we struggle to find truth, which is why memories arent always true.
- the beauty of memory lies within rendering detail, you become a story teller and an essay writer.
- If you fail to record your history, then it never really happened, through memory you get to live your life twice, going back to experiences to further sharpen the details and remember the truth of what was past.
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